Endgame of the Long Cold War

... alliance? An extremely pertinent question is whether there was an illusion about the West; one which returned in the late 1980s and the decade of the 1990s, but had its roots in 1956 and after. There were at least three major sources of the Sino-Soviet split, and one of them was the attitude... ... Congress in 1956, the international perspective that prevailed up until then in the first Cold War decade under Stalin, Molotov and Kaganovich, and which was broadly complied... ... Stalin’s historical role is very different today, to the one that prevailed in the USSR in 1956 and after, contributing to the Sino-Soviet split. The third factor was...